Complex Democracy

Chapter 1 Complex Democracy: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Varieties of Democracy: ‘Proporzdemokratie’, ‘Consensus Democracy’, Liberal Democracy and Direct Democracy

Chapter 3 The Four Worlds of Democracy: Commentary on Arend Lijphart’s Revised Edition of Patterns of Democracy (2012)

Chapter 4 ‘Proporz’ or Polarization? The Religious Cleavage, the Division on the Left and the Party Systems of Southern Europe

Chapter 5 Lehmbruch Versus Lijphart: Comparing Democratic Governments as Multidimensional Regimes

Chapter 6 A Delicate Relationship: Austria’s Oversensitivity–Germany’s Undersensitivity?

Chapter 7 Latent Institutional Elasticity: The Demise of Communism in the East Germany 1989/1990 and Gerhard Lehmbruch’s Concept of Administrative Interest Mediation

Chapter 8 Can There Be a Normative Theory of Corporate Political Power?

Chapter 9 No Exit from the Euro-Rescuing Trap?

Chapter 10 Will the Present Crisis Revive the Neo-corporatist Sisyphus?

Chapter 12 The Public Sector in the Aftermath of the Financial and Debt Crisis: Long-Term, Neglected Consequences

Chapter 13 When Frames Are Not Enough: Consumer Safety and National Interests in EU Financial Market Regulation

Chapter 14 Transformations of Democracy in a Globalizing World

Chapter 15 “Post-Democracy” and the Public Sphere: Informality and Transparency in Negotiated Decision-Making

Chapter 16 The Sustainability of Democracy: The Impact of Electoral Incentives on the Input and Output Legitimacy of Democracies

Chapter 17 Towards Post-Democracy or Complex Power Sharing? Environmental Policy Networks in Germany

Chapter 18 Ban on Blasphemy: Protection of Religion Versus Freedom of Opinion as a Conflict of Fundamental Rights in Democracy